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[ ) \rescued. A newspaper is a wonderful thing—You can make people think of your business every day. That’s the way big businesses are built. 312. ORTY-TWO OF THOSE ON BEAR MISSING SO FAR Officials Believe ,However, Death List Will Be Limited to Five Bodies Already Re- covered. VESSEL LOST ON THE ROCKS Tug Relief Picks Up Several Life Boats and Two Succeed in Reaching Land. FIVE BODIES WASHED ASHORE Bulletin. Afliance, Neb., June 15.—(Special Telegram.)—Word was received from Roy Bechwith and wife, who were on the steamer Bear en route from Port- land to San Francisco, that they were safe. Mr. Beckwith 's the proprietor of a clothing store here. VOL. XLV—NOQ. Eureka, Cal, June 15.—Forty-two of the passengers and crew of the steamer Bear were unaccounted for tonight, in a careful tally, made near- ly twenty-four hours after a fog | coaxed the Bear on to the rocks of the Mendocino coast, northern Cali- fornia. Officials of the company eypressed | hope that the death list would be | limited to the five bodies recovered by sundown. At that time there were | 134 survivors here and twenty-nine at Capetown, thirty miles to the | south. These, with the five known | dead, accounted for 168 of th~ 20! souls aboard the Bear struck, Lies High on Beach. | The steamer, a $1,000,000 coast- | wise boat, lies high on a rock beach near Sugar Loaf reef swinging in the long swells. Her captain, Louis | Nopander, and three members of the crew, stayed aboard until late to-| day. Finally they threw the ship’s | dog overboard with a light line, but | he could not make the shore, A line fired from the ship’s cannon reached, and, a raft was rigged which carried them ashore. | Fourteen life boats got away from | the Bear in good order. Eleven | made land at the mouth of Bear riy-| er, near the wreck and one capsized and was lost. Fog and a strong current were the only reasons given by the ship’s officers for the tragedy. Among the passengers were Roy Beckwith and wife of Alliance, Neb. Lureka, Cal, June 15.—One hun- dred and thirty-cne survivors from the wrecked steamer Bear were landed here today from: the steamer Grace Dollar and the tug Relief. Twenty-nine other -survivors are at Capctown. Four are still on the Bear. Five persons are known to be dead. This makes 169 of 212'souls | known to hav: been aboard the vessel, The first boat away from the wreck of the Bear upset and almost surgly all of the thirty persons in it were drowned, according to Miss Vera Adams of Seattle, a survivor, Miss Adams was in the third boat, which also upset. [Most of the thirty occupants of her boat were whep ehe ! Miss Adams, who was among those landed at Capetown, told this story: | “The Bear struck with a shock like an earthquake and then began to vi- brate like a long pendulum, rolling in the swell. A mile away we could see the surf leaping on the rocks. Passengers crowded on deck, but there was no great excitement. Some of the women and children were cry- ing. “Ten boats were put over the side, but none of them left the Bear -until two hours afte: we struck. Women and children were put into the boats first. The seas caught the first life- boat and swung it under the stern of the Bear, but the oars took hold and it got away. It was half a mile away when the waves caught it in a sudden flurry. A moment later we saw it upside down and all the thirty or more passengers floundering in the water, I am sure not one was iaved. “We clung to the sides of the boat. (Continued ap Page 2, Column 1.) The Weather For Nebrask Partly cloudy; change in temperature. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. not much Hour. Deg. 5 a 55 6 a 7 8 u. 9 a 10 a, il a 12 m 1 3 p, +p 5 p 6 b 7. IR A O] Comparative Yocal Record. 49816, 1915, 1914. 1913, hest yesterday .. 72 . 83 75 9 st yesterday 68 56 68 68 temperature 66 70 70 82 pitation Fa s P00 002 Telperature and precipitation departures rom the normal: temperature icy for the day.. since March 1, precipitation ney for the day rainfull since Mare siuce March 1.. v [dr cor. period 1915.. 172 inches Defickoney for cor, period 1914, . 1,42 Inches Reports from Stations at 7 p, m. 83 inches 4.60 inches 3| The OLLIE JAMES, OLD TIME TALKER, THE STAR AT ST. LOUIS Chairman of Convention Gives the Delegates First Real Thrill by His Flowery Praise of President. BRYAN COMES IN FOR SHARE Delegates Demand That the Peerless Leader Be Heard and Subside 2 Only When Promised. HOTEL KEEPERS LOSE PREY BY EDGAR C. SNYDER. St. Louis, Mo., June 15.—(Special Telegram.)—The second keynoter of the most orderly and sedate national convention of an unterrified democ- racy, Senator Ollic James of Ken- tucky, worked the first real, spontan- cous outburst of applause today in his speech as permanent chairman, when he said with reference to the | president, “Without orphaning a sin- gle American chiid, without widowing a single American mother, without firing a single gun, without the shed- ding of a single drop of blood, he wrung from the most militant spirit that ever brooded above a battlefield an acknowledgment of ~American rights, an agreement to American de- mands.” Made Him Say It Over. The delegates and the galleries were a unit in spitting their hands and thoats when “Big Ollie” had to repeat the phrase for the edification of sonie of the delegates whose hear- ing is defective There i no gain saying the fact that the convention had been put in a proper frame of mind by Governor Glynn in his keynote speech of yes- terday, to hear the well rounded, ponderous oratorical periods of the staesman from the Blue Grass country of 'Old Kentuck.” Very ation ago, Senator James was the | and he used all the arts of which he is a master in working on the pas- sions, prejudices and sentiment of the delegates and spectators. Clamor for Bryan. The demonstration atoused by James' speech was continued for twenty minutes, and then by some species of ledgermain it was switched from Senator James and his fine | words to Colonel W. J. Bryan, shouts for “Bryan! Bryan!” rending | the air, And it would have continued indefinitely, in-all probability, had not the permanent chairman assured the convention that Colonel Bryan would be given achancesto’ address the con- vention later, Reluctantly the crowd subsided. ~Mr. Bryan had departed from the Coliseum after the demon- stration over James’ speech was well under way. Mr. Bryan had an en- gageinent at the City club for lunch-! eon, where he was expected to make a speech. And he did make a speech, which is in nowise surprising, as Colonel Bryan has been doing that | self-same thing for thirty-odd years, ! whereby he has added much sheckels | to his strong box. He grew remin- iscent with the city dubites, and lold; them that he had attended his first | political convention forty years ago | in St. Louis. Also, he came there | as a reporter, which he said was his | present occupation. } Blames the Brewers. His failure to be'named on the Ne- braska delegation, he told his hear- ers, was caused by the saloon kecpers of the state, who awnted to keep him out of the convention, while he sought to keep them out of the saloops, and | both were successful. | Mr. Bryan is not the pathetic figure at this convention srme-people would make you believe. He still has a large following of enthusiastic worshipers. He is still to them their Moses, grown a little bald, with the bridge of hair at the back of his head graying rap- idly, with his figure taking on embon- point, but he is still their Moses, if a little elderly. When William Jennings Bryan entered the press section at 11:30 today he was given a warm re-l ception. He smiled the old Bryan smile in return and bowed again and again in response to the cheers. A number of the delegates moved up to the press enclosure and shook hands with him. There are thirteen women dele- gates. Eight of them, when asked abou t'their occupations, said they were “wives,” four replied that they were real estate operators, and one said she is a farmer. The editors in the various delega- tions come from twenty-five states. doctors are from seventeen states and Missouri leads with six men of this profession in its delega- tion. Four of the five miners in the con- vention are from Alaska. Of the twenty delegates who said they had no business, eighteen are from the state of Washington. There are no saloonkeepers in the convention. | Nine United States senators and six congressmen are delegates and there are about thirty federal job horse in the delegations setting tight on the lid. Want to Make Time. The determination of the leaders to speed up the nominations was re- ceived with shouts-by the rank and file_ of the delegates and by groans fro mthe hotel and restaurant keep- ers, for by tomorrow evening, St. Louis will be like “a banquet hall de- serted.” A kick was registered by many of the subscribers to the convention fund when it was announced that the life of the convention would be cut one-half, namely, from four days to practically two. James E. Smith, chairman of the association r.sharged with raising the 00,000 convention fund, let out a wild yell when he was told that the Stution und State Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. Tp.m. est. fall purtly cloudy.. 62 66 .00 . 82 " .23 1 76 T " 12 80 04 ki 14 3 T [ .01 72 .00 66 .01 va1 08 68 .01 f preciplation. WELSH, Meteorologist. . democrats had spent all their money and were getting ready to go home, reminiscent of the orator of a gener- | embodiment of the convention spirit, | | Jarita, a few miles south of Laredo, Thirteen Women There. |and reports. The boys and girls will‘, / , OMAHA, FRIDAY MEXICAN RAIDERS KILL 2 TROOPERS IN A BORDER RAID New Band of Outlaws Comes ng{r,’ Boundary and Descends [Imy Band Attacks Camp of American | Troops at San Ignacia, Texas, Early in the Day, PURSUIT OF BANDITS BEGINS Laredo, Tex,, June 15.—Three | American soldiers are dead and six are wounded as a result of the latest raid on American territory by Mexi- cans coming from the southern side of the Rio Grande today. No civilians were injured, as the raid was primar- ily an attack on the border patrol at the little settlement of San Ignacio, forty miles southeast of Laredo. Although successful in a measure, the raid was not wholly surprising to the American guard, which in | larger number than the Mexicans ex; | pected to find, saw in the bright moonlight the approach of the 100 |or more bandits to the rear of where troop M of the Fourteenth cavalry | was encamped, and ' where troop I | was but a short distance away. Both | were under command of Major | Alonzo Gray. | Eight Are Kjlled. { The Mexican toll was last reported las eight killed, «= number wounded fand several captured. In addition, | forty-two horses, once Mexican | mounts, were captured. One Mexi- jcan who surrendered said, according to those who made him captive, that he was forced into the raid and that | his sentiments were not anti-Amer- ican, £ A The Mexicans expected to find | only a small detachment of Ameri- | [can troops at that point, according to the prisoners. They had planned | with their,100 or more men to com- pletely overpower the border guard They attacked troop M, nceamped | Inear the town, firing the first _shot | at the sentry. At he tsound of the firing troop I, a few hundred yards | |up ther iver, rushed to the former | | troop’s aid, and after firing had lasted | one-half hour, the Mexicans treated | to the south, along the American side of the Rio Grande, with the Americans in pursuit. Wore Carranza Uniform. San Antonio, Tex., June 15—In the -efotliiig of ‘one of the bundits ‘whose body was recovered after the San Ig- | nacio fight, papers were found indi- cating that the man was an officer in the Carranza army, accordin_ to a late report from General Mann, The total number of Mexican dead is now placed at eight, the American dcad three and the wounde. six. The papers found on the dead ban- dit indicated that he was Major Cruz Ruis. Doubt as to the identity of the organization was cleaged by the story of Vicente Lira of San An- tonio, who appeared in the American | camp after the fight. Lira was a prisoner of the bandits. He escaped during the fight. Belong to La Rosa’s Band. According to Lira's story, the ban- | dits are members of Luis De La| Rosa's organization _and acted under | his orders. He said they left La Monday night, and moved steadily forward with nothing to eat for for- ty-eight hours, reaching a point al- most opposite the American camp. Within an hour they crossed the river a mile above San Ignacio, attacking almost immediately. Following are the names of the American soldiers killed during the (Continued on Page Two, Col. Two.) Public Schools Are To Close on Friday | . For Summer Term Friday will mark the close of the school year. Pupils are home today while the teachers are preparing cards present themselves Friday morning for their cards, will say good-bye tn; the teachers and then begin, their sum- mer vacation. l Joint' graduation exercises of the | three public high schools will be held Friday at the Auditorium, where 376 graduates will be given their diplo- mas, John D. Shoop, superintendent of the Chicago schools, will deliver the address. During the summer the Board of Education will push its building cam- paign. Postmaster of ; Buffalo Drops Dead at St. Louis Coliseum, St. Louis, June 15—Wil- | liam F. Casting, postmaster of Buf- falo, N. Y, dropped dead at the Mary- land hotel here today. He was hold- | ing the proxy of Mayor Fuhrmann of Buffalo, a delegate to the democratic convention. MR. ROOSEVELT HAS X-RAY EXAMINATION New York,Junt 15—The X-ray ex- amination made to determine the con- dition of Theodore Roosevelt, who suffered aft attack of pain in his side yesterday, disclosed that several small tendons attache? to oné of his ris had snapped, the colonel told inquir- ers today. He said that his physician | had assured him, however, that the injury, due to his violent coughing, ‘was not serivus and would heal in a| few days if he remained quiet. MORNING, JUNE 16, 19 16—FOURTEEN PAGES. MRS. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, wife of the republican nominee for president. WAIL GAR AT BUTTE WRBCKED BY BOMB Infernal -Machine Directed. to the | Governor of Utah Explodes | While Being Handled. INVESTIGATION STARTS AT ONCE e iy | Butte, Mont., June 15.—A bomb in a package in one of the mail pouches PLATFORM MAKERS | AGTIVELY WORKING Vice Chairman Cummings Wants & Provision for Popular Election of National Committeemen. RAINEY DRAWS TARIFF PLANK St. Louis, June 15.—With a copy of President Wilson's suggestions for being transferred from a Chicago, | planks in the hands of every member Burlington & Quincy train to the Ore- i gon Short line here toaay, exploded and wrecked the Oregon Short Line mail car. The package, it was re- ported, was addressed to the governor of Utah, Investigation of the presence of the bomb in the mail is being made by federal authorities here. Postmaster Phil Goodwin, who collected pieces of the bomb and the package in which it was hidden, expressed the belief | that that the infernal machine was addressed to the governcr of Utah. of the sub-committee on resolutions the democratic convention started work today on the actual framing of the platform. Chairman Stone said he did not expect the draft to be ready |for the convention before tonight and | probably will not be presented until tomorrow. | Homer S. Cummings, vice chairman of the national committee and con- sidered for the chairmanship to suc- ceed William F. McCombs, appeared | before the sub-committec today to | OLLIE JAMES ENTHUSES CROWD | Convention Twoand Half Million Dollarsin Gifts tothe |urge adoption of a resolution which would fix the method in the future of clecting democratic national commit- teemen. Mr. Cummings said it was desirable that committeemen be elect- Technical Institute Boston, Mass., June 15.—Gifts to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nicology aggregating $2,660,000 were announced last night at a banquet which was the concluding event of the institute’s commencement exer- cises, held in connection with the dedication of its new home on the Cambridge side of the Charles river. The gifts are from alumni, including members of the Dupont family of Delaware, Boston capitalists and “the mysterious Mr. Smith,” an unidenti- fied benefactor, who has figured pre- viously as the donor of large sums! to the institution, Tt was announced | that “Mr, Smith” has agreed to con-f tribute §5 for every $3 given by oth- | ers, Pierre S. Dupont, $500,000; T. Cole- | man Dupont, $100,000; Irene E. Du-| pont, $100,000; Lamont Dupont, $100,- | 000; Charles Hayden, Boston, $100,- | 000; C Stone and E. S. Webgter, $50,000; Everett D. Adams, Boston, $50,000; “Mr. Smith,” $1,660,000. It | is understood that the money is to be used for a general endowment fund. Famine Conditions | Prevail at Torreon El Paso, Tex., June 15-~Two thou- sand refugees, including four Amcri-” cans, arrived in Juarez last night from | Chihuahua and the district around Torrcon. The Americans declare that | famine conditions prevail around Tor- reon and that the civil population | would welcome American intervention | or any other measurc that would re- lieve them from the dangers of starva- tion. currency, they say, is absolutely with- | out purchasing power, Canuto Reyes and Jose Isabel Ro- bles, former” Villistas, who recently 4 7 The list of contributors follows: | P ed by democratic voters in all states and territories. Before the sub-committee met there was a revival of the suggestion that a plank be inserted for legislation that would prevent a federal judge from accepting any elective federal office during his term or within a designat- ed time after he quit the bench. A delegation representing the American organization of hoboes ap- peared at the committee room cari)y ntinued on Page ‘our.) Judge L. D. Brandeis Will Addfis_s Zionists Philadelphia, Pa., June 15—Louis Brandeis, recently appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States by President Wilson, will be the principal speaker at the annual convention of Zionists here on July 2. Six hundred dele- gates from all over the country will he in attendance. Justice Brandeis is chairman cf the provisional executive committee for Zionists' affairs, organized August 30, 1914. The committee was created to take up the work of the international Zionists' organization, interrupted by the war, The Zionists are organized for the purpose of re-establishing the Jewish people as a nation in_Palestine, Austrian Troops Make $tand North Of_fizernowitz June 15.—(By Wir:less to Berlin, The newest issue of Carranza |Sayville.)—Austrian troops in Bukow- ina are making a stand north of Czer- nowitz, and also are holding the Rus- sians east of the city. The repulse of Russian attacks from both these di- made their peace with the de facto |rections is announced in the official government, are reported to have again revolted and with a number of Carranza officers, declare they will not oppose the Americans. Americans in the party are George Brittingham, George Johnson, George Briggs and Mrs. Margaret Elmendorf, B attackec headquarters statement from Vienna issued under date of June 14. Russian troops in dense formation the Teutonic lines near Przewloka, but were repulsed by General Bothmer's troops, it was an- nounced by army headquarters today. Un Trains, at Hotels, Ne: Bo. Stands, ete., 'DEMOS HEAR JAMES AND COMPLATE ALL THE PRELIMINARIES National Convention Holds En- thusiastic Meeting and Takes Recess Until the Evening. Goes Wild Several Times During His Praise of Administration’s Work. LOUD CALLS MADE FOR BRYAN Coliseum, June 15.—The demacratic convention reconvened after 9 o’clock with the intention of remaining in continuous session until it nominated President Wilson and Vice President Marshall. St. Louis, Jun:lsz.—-Under suspen- sion of the rules, W. J. Bryan was escorted to the platform to address | the convention. N Coliseum, St. Louis, June 15,—The democratic national convention today changed its program of procedure and agreed to make nominations for president and vige president tonight instead of (om(jrm\'. The rules were amended and the convention adjourned at 1:22 p, m. to 9 o'clock tonight and remain in con- tinuous session until nominations are made. With one demonstration ‘after an- other today, the democratic conven- tion registered its approval of Presi- dent Wilson's conduct of foreign af- | fairs, which has kept the country at | ‘peace. ol When Permanent Chairman James recounted the diplomatic achieve- ments of the president in the negotia-~ tions with Germany the convention launched into an eighteen-minute up- roar of marching, cheers and waving of flags, in which William J. Bryan from his seat in the press section | joined, There were calls for a speech f.om Bryan, but he had slipped out while the demonstration was going on, - Jerry C. Smith, chief clerk of the house of representatives, a delegate from Arkansas, announced that he would raise' a point «f order if con- sent were asked for Bryan to speak. The convention machinery was all ready to be thrown into high gear by a rcport from the rules committee recommending that nominations be made tonight, All leaders were agree- able to the new lans. Eleven o'clock, the hour for the conyention to be in order, passed with the Coliseum only partly }i)led. Very ifew of the delégates were in wtheir seats and none of the léaders had arrived. The band entertained the small crowd, while the rules commit- tee had a meeting to talk over the proposal to proceed to nominations tonlght instead of tomorrow night. The band played the anti-hyphen song, “Don’t Bite the Hand ‘that's Feeding You,” and a male. quartet sang the chorus. The crowd cheered. The committee on permanent or- | ganization meanwhile formally named Senator Ollie James of Kenfucky as e O (Continued on Page 2,.Column 3.) | Recbbdiitll A daadboe Prosecution Makes Two More Points | Against W. H. Orpet Waukegan, IIl, June The | tracks made in the snow of Helm’s | woods were still the subject of minute examination today at the trial of William H. Orpet, charged with the murder of Marion Lambert. Fred Wenben, the undertaker who removed Marion's body from the woods, testified that the tracks made in the snow by Marion and Orpet were “old tracks™” Hhe said they were a day older than those made by Will- iam. Marshall and Frank Lambert when they found the body. Wenban said that he examined the old foot prints carefully. The small ones and the larger ones led into the woods to the cluster of three oak trees where Marion’s body was found. The larger ones went away along to a marshy spot overgrown by weeds. From the weeds, the witness Said, they returned to a spot where there were four oaks, then they de- scribed a semi-circle to the spot where the body was found. The witness spoke of noticing a stain in the snpw similar to the yel- low white stain on Marion's face and right hand. It was in the path made | by the man leaving the body, it was said. This point has been regarded as important by the state as support- ing its theory that Marion's com- panion carried the remainder of the | | poison from whicl she died away with im. The undertaker made another | point for the state, which holds that the cyanide of potassium which caused the girl's death, was taken in liquid form. Hughes Probably Will Make Speaking Tour of Country New York, June 15.—Charles Evans Hughes continued hic conferences here today with republican party leaders and prominent politicians. He told newspaper men that plans for the campaign are awaiting the meet- ing of the subcommittee of the, na- tional committee with the presidential candidate next Monday. It was said at Mr, {{ughes' head- quarters today that the nominee would in all likelihood make a cam- paign tour of the country. Head- quartery are to be opened eventually in Chicago, it was learned, to handle the ampairn in the west. V\glliam Potter of Philadelphia, who seconded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago, was one of Mr. Hughes’ callers today, I || THE WEATHER C—l&ly SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ANTI-HYPHENATE PLANK IS MAKING DEMOS TROUBLE Wilson’s One, Telegraphed From Washington, Causes Row in Committee Framing Party Platform. BODY RECESSES TIIL LATER Sub-Committee Agrees Upon Draff Sent to St. Louis From White House. RETAINS THE VITAL CLAUSE Bulletin, St. Louis, Mo., June 15—~Governor Morehead has withdrawn as a candi~ date for vice president. St. Louis, June 15—The Americans ism or hypen plank as accepted by the subcommittee is in practically the same shape as drafted by the presie dent. The plank retains the clause calling upon all other political par- ties to repudiate the support of all foreigners living here who conspire to promote the interests of their own sovernments at the expense of the American government, St. Louis, June 15.—Senator Wil- liam J. Stone, chairman of the resolu- tions committee, this afternoon post- poned the meeting of the full commit- tee of the resolutions from 3:30 o'clock until 8 o'clock tonight. In tk: meane time the sub-committee on resolutions will continue its deliberations. St. Louis, Mo, June 15.—After a three-hour session today members of the democratic convention subcom- mittee on resolutions, which is draft- ing the platform, announced that a tentative draft probably will be come pleted late today for consideration by the entire committee. Representative Rainey of Illinois, a member of the subcommittee, said the tentative draft would contain a woman suffrage plank at least as strong as that con- tained in the republican platform, and expressing the belief of tEe demo- cratic party that women should be en- franchisd. When the subcomntittee took the president’s suggestion for a plan condemning organizations of foreign born citizens for attempts to influ- ence international and domestic polic= ies, a fight developed that threatened to lengthen its sessisons. Some mem- bers were said to be strongly opposed.- to,_ such a plank, . b i Chairman, Stoue said after the com~ mittee had been in sesssion more t four hours, that it probably would not be able, as originally planned, to c9n|1plet: a tentative draft before toe night. S After some discussion of the pros posed plank on the activities of fors cign born citizens, it was laid aside temporarily. The plank on Ameri- canism probably wilY contain the par- ty's declarations on this question. The planks on tariff and international re- lations did not take much time and were approved in tentative form after various ‘members had given their views. Flagman, Engineer And Wooden Cars Blamed for Wreck Washington, D. C.,, June 15.~Blame for the passenger wreck on the New York, New Haven & Hartford rail road at Bradford, R. I, April 17, in which five persons were killed and seventeen injured, was placed by the Interstate Commerce commission to- - day on the failure of Flagman Coombs and Engineman Mansfield to attend signals properly, X Old-fashioned wooden cars and gas lights contributed to the fatalities, the report said, It pointed out that had the cars been of modern steel construction they would not have been destroyed by fire and it would have been pos+ sible to save more lives. Patrick of Omaha Dies Near Sheridan Sheridan, Wyo., June 15—A. S, Patrick, 75 years old, of Omaha, dropped dead of heart failure at his ranch near here late today. Mr. Pat- rick was well known throughout the northwest. 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